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The Phipps Family in Florida: A World of Their Own, Part 2 of 3
Palm Beach• September 26, 2023.The second installment of the architectural history of the Phipps Family in Palm Beach beginning at the end of the 19th century through the 20th to today. Details, details and engagingly told by Augustus Mayhew...

This Was Then: The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Dinner with D.V.”
Social History• May 3, 2023.A piece of New York fashion history, a page out of only yesterday, Mary Hilliard’s report on the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum’s “Dinner With DV” (Diana Vreeland) on December 7, 1987...